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What is an ovary?

What is an ovary? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova and in mammals secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
  2. (botany) The lower part of a pistil or carpel that bears ovules and ripens into fruit.
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Essentially, an ovarian cyst is nothing more than a fluid-filled sac, like a blister, on an ovary.
Then the doctor would surgically extract the eggs from the ovary, fertilize them, and reinsert them into the womb.
The vase life of the flowers with part of the ovary tissue remaining on the receptacle was similar to that of the control flowers.
The cocoa flower has five free sepals, five free petals, five staminodes, five stamens and an ovary of five united carpels.
Characteristic multicellular, branched hairs were observed on the reverse of the tepals and upon the pedicellate ovary of all species.
The reduction in cell number of the female gametophyte and embryo allows a large number of megasporogenesis events to occur in the ovary.

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